Publications

EU De minimis Regulation and UK Minimal Financial Assistance exemption training delivered by Stephen Moore of the Subsidy Control Advice Unit (SCAU) on 21 March 2024.

This guide is intended to help you, as a public body in Northern Ireland, understand basic State aid concepts and rules. It will help you to identify whether State aid will be present in your policies, schemes and/or project proposals.

Flow chart to help you assess whether State aid might be present in your project.

A desk aid that provides you with guidance on the four key questions that you should consider to assess whether State aid is present, and how to interpret them.

A flow chart designed to help you understand what to do next if you think that State aid might be present in your project.

The Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (Blacklists) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (the Regulations) came into operation on 6 April 2014. They were introduced to prohibit the use of ‘blacklists’ in respect of employees or potential employees.

The Department has given a commitment in the Executive’s Economic Strategy to conduct a fundamental review of employment law.

Shared Parental Leave and Pay (including provisions for time off to attend antenatal appointments and pre-adoption meetings, extension of adoption leave and pay to prospective adopters and surrogate parents. Extension of Right to Request Flexible Working.

Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (the Act) requires public authorities, in carrying out their functions relating to Northern Ireland, to have due regard to the need to promote equality of opportunity and regard to the desirability of promoting good relations across